Place and Time in Argumentation

This book introduces the principles of place and time by discussing the main roles they play in argumentation, unpacking the multifarious meanings of spatiality and temporality. Definitions of kairos are explored to yield suggestions as to how this concept, and that of 'place', can operate in argumentation. The chapters explore various related concepts such as the role of different arguments in different places, and how some places are not intended for argument; argumentation, time and temporality; visual argumentation; the effect of the passage of time on argument evaluation; and the image as a site of discursive production. This collection is of interest to students and researchers in argumentation studies, rhetoric, reasoning, and philosophy.
Previously published in Argumentation Volume 34, issue 1, March 2020

Dr. Christopher W. Tindale is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Windsor. He received his PhD from the University of Waterloo. He worked for almost 20 years at Trent University in Ontario, moving in 2006 to the University of Windsor to become a fellow of the Centre of Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric and a professor in the department of Philosophy. He also lectures in the Argumentation Studies PhD and supervises students in that program. He is the co-editor (with J. Anthony Blair) of the journal Informal Logic; and the co-editor (with Leo Groarke) of the Windsor Studies in Argumentation book series. His books include Acts of Argument (1999), Rhetorical Argumentation (2004), Fallacies and Argument Appraisal (2007), Reason's Dark Champions (2010), The Philosophy of Argument and Audience Reception (2015), and The Anthropology of Argument (2021). His work has been translated into a number of languages, and a selection of his essays appeared in Spanish in 2017: Retórica y teoría de la argumentación contemporáneas: ensayos escogidos de Christopher Tindale.